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Re:Anthropic - Introducing 100K Token Context Windows, Aroun... by visarga on Thursday May 11, 2023 @03:21PM (#35907099)
LLMs can do that without any examples (zero shot) or with one or a few demonstrations in the prompt, if you can describe the task in the limited context window.

If you want for example to train the model to learn to use a very large API, or access the knowledge in a whole book, it might need fine-tuning.

Re:Anthropic - Introducing 100K Token Context Windows, Aroun... by nico on Thursday May 11, 2023 @04:47PM (#35908145)
Could I just train a very small LLM with an English dictionary + Python + large API documentation + large Python code base?

Then do some chat fine tuning (like what HF did with StarCoder to get ChatCoder)

And get a lightweight LLM that knows the docs and code for the thing I need it for

After that, maybe incrementally fine tune the model as part of your CI/CD process